Lake Tazawa

You totally thought I forgot to blog about last weekend. Well, my friend, maybe another day. Until then here is another installment of the Millburn's crazy family adventures!

Get in the car- We're going to Lake Tazawa!

3 hours and 1700 yen in tolls south of us is the beautiful Lake Tazawa. Don't worry, Marie made her stuffed dog pay the tolls.

We took our good friend Sara, (her husband just deployed and Marie is nuts for her)

Here is Sara in front of a stormy lake Friday night. The wind and rain was a wonderful change from the stale, hot humidity we've been dealing with.

The camp ground was really cool, and for extra you could stay in this tree house. I think I prefer to sleep on ground level, thank you.

 

Here are Sara and Marie. Sara helped us get settled when we first arrived in Misawa. She came to our hotel room (as we didn't have a phone), offered us rides, and took us everywhere we needed to get into a house, buy a car, and meet new people. We've been smitten by her ever since!

Picture of a disgustingly large moth for your personal enjoyment.

The smartest idea I've ever had was not to marry this man, but to rent the kayak behind him. It was sooooo much fun. Random story: Brett and I kayaked out deep into the lake to a floating dock to do some diving. The water, seeing as the lake is the deepest in Japan, was turquoise and tasted fresh like it was poured from the tap. We were met at the dock by a local who asked where we were from. We replied the usual, "America." (I'm sure he was like "duh" but he wanted to know exactly- so we said Utah/Idaho. And he was still like, "where in Idaho." I just laughed because like he would know where Emmett is. And then he said "I was just in Meridian last week." (This is all in perfect English of course). If your familiar with SE Idaho I hope you're as blown away as I was.

The weekend was great, we went with 3 other families from our ward. Our friends rock, they always suggest awesome places.

Ok, so we didn't take this picture. Did the snow give it away? I just felt we didn't get any pictures of how incredibly beautiful this place was. At least in the top 3 of the MOST beautiful places I've ever been.

Also, for you dragon lovers, this statue represents the myth behind the lake. Legend has it this gal prayed to be beautiful for 100 days. She then drank the water from the lake and was turned to a dragon and sunk to the bottom of the lake. However, there was also a man who did something (foolish or wise, depending on if you think being a dragon is cool) to make him into a dragon also and joined her at the bottom of the lake. Now their PG13 escapades ensure that this lake never freezes over.

And we'll end on that high note.